In these years, Americans move from liberal to the left and then to the right, directionally speaking--why such change in direction? Please do the following:

1-Go to the Prelinger Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger) and watch:

DUCK AND COVER (1951) http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951

and ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE (1950) http://www.archive.org/details/AreYouRe1950

These were the kind of films showed in the "darkened room" to a generation of school children--watch these and consider the kinds of values and skills that are being taught to children. Evaluate their strengths and weaknessses--what kind of impact might these teachings have on children and youth? What are the ideas about democracy?

2-Watch one or more of the following and consider how these films might reflect the younger generation coming of age? What values, and how do they compare to the films of the 1950s?

GREENWICH VILLAGE SUNDAY (1960s) http://www.archive.org/details/Greenwic1960

COFFEE HOUSE RENDEZVOUS (1969) http://www.archive.org/details/CoffeeHo1969

HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) There are some online sites where you can watch it for free, just google. . .

UC SOCIAL SEMINAR (1971) http://www.archive.org/details/SocialSe1971

What values are displayed by the baby boomers coming of age, and how do they match the values of their parents? The values with which they grew up?

3-Alright--this one is yours--what is a good film on the youth coming of age in the era of conservatism, for many of you this is the time in which you have come of age. What film produced b/t 1978 and 1990, do you think, best reveals Generation X? I will make a discussion on BB for this question, and then put some of your suggestions up on Sunday night!

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Reading Guide Posted Below, note fewer

terms, remember Main Events!

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CHAPTER 27: Age of Affluence

Economic Powerhouse: What were significant characteristics of the American economic growth of the 1950s and 1960s? (Economic Growth, Corporate Order, Labor Management Accord)

Affluent Society: In what ways did Americans display their Affluence? (Suburban Explosion, Search for Security, Consumer Culture, Baby Boom, Contradictions in Women's Lives, Youth Culture, Cultural Dissenters).

The "Other America": Who made up the "other America" and why? (Immigrants and Migrants, Urban Crisis, Emerging Civil Rights Struggle).

Events: Bretton Woods, World Bank and the IMF, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, Levittown, Jackie Robinson, network television, Treaty of Detroit and Labor-Management Accord, Operation Wetback, Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Montgomery Bus Boycott, AFL and CIO merge-why? National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, Elvis Presley, Peak of Postwar Baby Boom, Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock, Suthern Christian Leadership Conference, Greensboro sit-ins

CHAPTER 28: Liberal Consensus Foaming Out 1960-1968

John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation: Why was JFK so popular and what did he represent? (The New Politics, Kennedy Aministration, Civil Rights Movement, Kennedy Cold Warrior, Vietnam Puzzle, Assassination).

Lyndon B. Johnson an the Great Society: Evaluate the accomplishments of LBJ. (Momentum for Civil Rights, Enacting the Liberal Agenda).

Into the Quagmire: How and why did the U.S. become more involved in Vietnam? (Escalation, Public Opinion on Vietnam, Student Activism).

Coming Apart: Why did people begin to change their minds about Vietnam and Communist containment? (Cunterculture and Beyond Civil Rights).

1968: A Year of Shocks: What happened in 1968? (Politics of Vietnam and Backlash).

Events: John F. Kennedy, Peace Corps, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, Birmingham, Alabama protest, March on Washington, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act, Economic Opportunity Act, War on Poverty, Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Immigration Act on National Quota System, Voting Rights Act, Medicare and Medicaid, Malcom X assassinated, Operation Rolling Thunder, first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam, Race Riots in Watts, Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, Hippie counterculture "Summer of Love," antiwar protest in D.C., Tet Offensive, MLKing Assassintated, Chicago Dem National Convention Riot, American Indian Movement (AIM)

CHAPTER 29: Toward a Conservative America: The 1970s

The Nixon Years: Why was Nixon elected, and what did he accomplish? (Nixon's Domestic Agenda, Detente, Nixon's War, the 1972 Election, Watergate).

Battling for Civil Rights: The Second Stage: What Civil Rights were fought for in the 1970s? Won? (The Revival of Feminism, Enforcing Civil Rights).

Lean Years: What happened to the economy, why limits? (Energy Crisis, Environmentalism, Ecoomic Woes).

Politics in the Wake of Watergate: What was Watergate and what was its effect on politics? (Jimmy Carter: The OUtsider as Presient, Carter and the World).

Events: National Organization of Women, Stonewall Riog, Vietnam Moratorium, Earth Day, Environmental Protection Agency, Nixon into Cambodia, Anti-War Protests, KIent State & Jackson State, Pentagon Papers, Watergate Break-in (CREEP), Nixon visits China, Salt I, Roe v. Wade, Endangered Species Act, Paris Peace Accords, War Powers Act, Arab Oil Embargo, Gas Shortages, Nixon Resigns, Ford President, Nixon Pardon, Fall of Saigon, immy Carter, Camp David Accords (Egypt and Israel), Proposition 13, Bakke v. University of California, Affirmative Action, 3 Mile Island, Hostage takeover in Tehran, Iran, Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, "Superfund" created for toxic cleanup